1. Events

2. Bands disbanded

3. Albums released
    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  R  S  T  V  W  Y  Z 

4. Year-End List

5. Deaths

6. References

The following is a list of notable events and releases that are expected to happen in 2016 in music in Canada.

Events

• April 3 – Juno Awards of 2016
• April 17 – Final concert by the influential folk-rock band Spirit of the West.^[1]
• April – East Coast Music Awards
• May 15 – Prism Prize presented.
• May 24 – The Tragically Hip announce that lead singer Gord Downie has been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.^[2]
• June 15 – Preliminary longlist for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize is announced.
• July – SOCAN Songwriting Prize is presented.
• July 14 – Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize is announced.
• July 22 – The Tragically Hip play the first date of their Man Machine Poem Tour in Victoria, British Columbia.
• August 20 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts The Tragically Hip's concert at the K-Rock Centre in their hometown of Kingston, which may be the band's last-ever live concert due to Gord Downie's cancer diagnosis, as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, CBC Music and YouTube.^[3]
• September 19 – Kaytranada's album 99.9% is named the winner of the Polaris Music Prize.^[4]
• December 3 – 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards

Bands disbanded

• Nomeansno
• Spirit of the West

Albums released

A

• Matt Andersen, Honest Man – February 26^[5]
• Ancient Shapes, Ancient Shapes
• Anvil, Anvil Is Anvil – February 26^[5]

B

• Badbadnotgood, IV – July 8
• Jason Bajada, Volcano – February 12^[5]
• Matthew Barber and Jill Barber, The Family Album – April 1^[6]
• Bobby Bazini, Summer Is Gone
• Bear Mountain, BADU – September 9^[7]
• Daniel Bélanger, Paloma
• Art Bergmann, The Apostate – May 13^[8]
• The Besnard Lakes, A Coliseum Complex Museum – January 22^[9]
• Black Mountain, TBA^[7]
• Blue Rodeo, 1000 Arms – October 28
• Brasstronaut, Brasstronaut – November 11
• Alysha Brilla, Human
• Jim Bryson, Somewhere We Will Find Our Place – February 12
• Basia Bulat, Good Advice – February 12^[10]
• The Burning Hell, Public Library – April 1

C

• Brendan Canning, Home Wrecking Years – August 12
• Charlotte Cardin, Big Boy
• Jazz Cartier, Hotel Paranoia
• Tanika Charles, Soul Run – May 10
• Classified, Greatful – January 15^[7]
• Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker
• Jason Collett, Song and Dance Man – February 5^[10]
• Lori Cullen, Sexsmith Swinghammer Songs

D

• Dead Obies, Gestamtkunstwerk – March 4^[7]
• Devours, Late Bloomers
• Céline Dion, Encore un soir – August 26
• Gord Downie, Secret Path – October 18^[11]
• Drake, Views – April 29

E

• Earle and Coffin, Live at the Citadel House

F

• The Flatliners, TBA^[7]
• Fond of Tigers, Uninhabit – October 7

G

• Karina Gauvin, Divine Karina – February 12^[7]
• Hannah Georgas, For Evelyn^[12]
• Matthew Good, I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited – December 2
• Great Lake Swimmers, Swimming Away

H

• Ron Hawkins, Spit Sputter and Sparkle – March 25^[13]
• Tim Hecker, TBA^[7]
• Angela Hewitt, Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas – February 12^[7]
• The Hidden Cameras, Home on Native Land
• Holy Fuck, TBA^[7]

J

• July Talk, Touch – September 9
• Junior Boys, Big Black Coat – February 5^[7]

K

• Kaytranada, 99.9% – May 6
• Aidan Knight, Each Other – January 22^[7]
• Koriass, Love Suprême
• Chantal Kreviazuk, Hard Sail – July 17 ^[14]
• Patrick Krief, Automanic – September 30

L

• Land of Talk, TBA^[7]
• k.d. lang with Neko Case and Laura Veirs, case/lang/veirs
• Little Scream, TBA^[7]

M

• Ria Mae, Ria Mae – June 3
• Magic!, Primary Colours – July 1
• Majid Jordan, Majid Jordan – February 5^[7]
• Kate Maki, Head in the Sand – May 20^[15]
• Dan Mangan, Unmake – June 17
• Carolyn Mark, Come! Back! Special!
• Shawn Mendes, Illuminate
• Dylan Menzie, Adolescent Nature

N

• Nap Eyes, Thought Rock Fish Scale
• Sarah Neufeld, The Ridge – February 26^[7]

O

• Karim Ouellet, Trente – March 11^[16]

P

• PartyNextDoor, PartyNextDoor 3 – August 12
• Lido Pimienta, La Papessa
• Plants and Animals, Waltzed in from the Rumbling – April 29
• Protest The Hero, Pacific Myth – November 18

R

• Radio Radio, Light the Sky – February 19^[7]
• Allan Rayman, Hotel Allan
• Corin Raymond, Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams
• River Tiber, Indigo - June 24
• Royal Canoe, Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit
• Justin Rutledge, East – September 30^[17]
• Serena Ryder, Utopia

S

• Sam Roberts Band, Terraform – October 28
• John K. Samson, Winter Wheat – October 21^[18]
• Andy Shauf, The Party – May 20
• Shotgun Jimmie, Field of Trampolines
• Simple Plan, Taking One for the Team – February 19^[7]
• Rae Spoon, Armour – February 19^[19]
• Frederick Squire, Spooky Action at a Distance – May 27^[20]
• The Strumbellas, Hope – February 5^[7]
• Sussex, Parade Day

T

• Tanya Tagaq, Retribution – October 21^[21]
• Tasha the Amazon, Die Every Day
• Tory Lanez, I Told You – August 19
• The Tragically Hip, Man Machine Poem – June 17
• A Tribe Called Red, We Are the Halluci Nation
• Tuns, Tuns – August 26^[22]

V

• Venetian Snares, Traditional Synthesizer Music – February 20^[23]
• Lindy Vopnfjörð, Frozen in Time – October 28

W

• Martha Wainwright, Goodnight City
• Weaves, Weaves
• The Weeknd, Starboy – November 25
• Wintersleep, The Great Detachment – March 4^[7]
• Woodpigeon, TROUBLE
• Royal Wood, Ghost Light
• Donovan Woods, Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled – February 26^[24]
• Roy Woods, Nocturnal – December 23
• Roy Woods, Waking at Dawn – July 1

Y

• Ken Yates, Huntsville
• You Say Party, You Say Party – February 12^[7]
• Your Boy Tony Braxton, Adult Contempt – July 15^[25]

Z

• The Zolas, Swooner – March 4^[26]

Year-End List

Deaths

• January 3 – Paul Bley, jazz pianist
• January 14 – René Angélil, 73, entertainment manager (Celine Dion)
• February 3 – Brad Kent, musician (D.O.A., Avengers)
• February 6 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Gilles Brown|fr}}, singer
• February 15 – Vanity, 57, singer
• March 9 – Ray Griff, 75, country music singer and songwriter
• March 30 – Howard Cable, conductor, composer and arranger
• April 3 – Don Francks, 84, jazz vocalist and actor
• April 27 – Philip Kives, founder of K-tel
• May 26 – Joel Hastings, pianist
• June 4 – Bobby Curtola, 73, singer
• June 8 – Brian Rading, 69, bassist Five Man Electrical Band
• June 21 – Pierre Lalonde, singer and television host
• July 4 – William Hawkins, songwriter and poet
• July 9 – Geneviève Castrée, musician and comic book artist
• July 29 – Lucille Dumont, singer
• July 31 – Penny Lang, folk musician
• September 3 – Raymond Daveluy, composer and organist
• October 29 – Paul Demers, singer-songwriter
• November 7 – Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter

References

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